Otto Muller 1471 Stellar Rd Williamstown, VT 05679 Phone: 802.433.1595 E-Mail: muller.otto@gmail.com music.ottohmuller.com
Education Ph.D. B.A. B.Mus.
Music Composition, University at Buffalo (SUNY), 2008 Philosophy, Northwestern University, 2003 Music Composition, Northwestern University, 2003
Additional Studies L’Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Siena, Italy, 2006 Teaching Experience • Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Goddard College, Plainfield, VT • Lecturer, Composition, Music Theory University at Buffalo (SUNY), Buffalo, NY • Teaching Assistant, Music Theory University at Buffalo (SUNY) Buffalo, NY
2008 - Present 2006-2008 2003-2006
Festivals and Conferences • Klangraum, Kunstraum / Jazz-Schmiede, Dusseldorf, Germany Premier of Memor 2.2612 by Antoine Beuger and D. Edward Davis
2014
• Collisions, Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, London Performance of “Mask-Making/Soul-Making,” multimedia collaboration with Will Pinchin
2013
• Future of Cage: Credo, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Presented paper: Lectures on Something: The Critical Pedagogy of John Cage
2012
• Harvard Summer Composition Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Colloquium Panelist: “Why Compose?”
2012
• Tzlil Meudcan Festival, Felicja Blumental Music Center, Tel Aviv, Israel Premiere of Inhumati (2011) by Duo Stump-Linshalm et al.
2011
• Zvuk i Vryska (Sound and Relation), Red House Center, Sofia, Bulgaria Performance of of Et in Arcadia Ego (2005) by Gheorghita Boyadjieva
2007
• June in Buffalo Festival, University at Buffalo (SUNY), Buffalo, NY Premiere of Vocis Secundae (2005) by the New York New Music Ensemble
2006
Awards and Grants • ALEA III Composition Competition – Finalist
2009
• SEMC Young Composers Award – Winner
2008
• New York State Council on the Arts Grant
2008
• BMI Student Composer Award – Winner
2007
• Presidential Fellowship, State University of New York
2003
Affiliations/Memberships • Creative Team, Grafted Cede Theater Laboratory • Secretary, Co-Founder, Open Music Foundation Inc. The Open Music Foundation is grant-supported not-for-profit organization to support the performance of improvised, experimental, and unconventionally notated music
2010 - Present 2005 - 2008